Foxy Brown *** (1974, Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 9419

Writer-director Jack Hill’s 1974 nasty-toned, ultra-violent but vigorous early Seventies blaxploitation action thriller Foxy Brown stars the admirable Pam Grier in one of her most iconic performances as vigilante Foxy Brown on the vengeance trail again against the kinky Mob bad guys Steve Elias and Miss Katherine (Peter Brown, Kathryn Loder) who shot dead her government agent boyfriend.

Though we don’t know what job Foxy Brown previously might have, we do know that Foxy Brown takes a job as a high-class prostitute as part of her vengeance plan. Antonio Fargas (street informant Huggy Bear on TV’s Starsky and Hutch) co-stars as Link Brown.

Also in the cast are Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe, Sid Haig, Juanita Brown, Sally Ann Stroud, Bob Minor, Tony Giorgio, Fred Lerner, Judith Cassmore, H B Haggerty and Boyd ‘Red’ Morgan.

Foxy Brown is directed by Jack Hill, runs 91 minutes, is made by American International Pictures (AIP) and Hollywood West Entertainment, is released by American International Pictures (AIP) (1974) (US) and Focus Films (1974) (UK), is written by Jack Hill, is shot by Brick Marquand, is produced by Buzz Feitshans and scored by Willie Hutch.

Jack Hill wrote the star role for Pam Grier, as a sequel to his Coffy (1973), also starring Grier, but AIP decided not to do a sequel at the last minute. Coffy was a nurse but there wasn’t time to write in what job Foxy Brown might have.

The filming took just 17 days. The body count is 12.

Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched Pam Grier’s career in 1971 with The Big Doll House.

Pre-Starsky and Hutch, Antonio Fargas played in many blaxploitation films of the early Seventies, including Shaft (1971) and the Mafia movie Across 110th Street (1972), as well as in the Ron Howard TV movie Huckleberry Finn (1975).

Character actor and horror movie legend Sid Haig died at 80 in September 2019.

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Peter Brown (1935–2016).